Grizz and Fru

New Pics

2011-06-29T18:01:00.000-07:00

I've been wanting to get our pictures taken for quite a while now and we finally made the time and got it done. A friend at work took them for us last week and these are just few of our favorites...

I love this man!!

TIMBER!!!

2011-05-15T14:45:00.000-07:00

Our first big project this spring was to take out the big messy tree in front of our house...

Yes, the monkey in this picture is Nick and that is our huge tree out front (well, not anymore!)

I should have started taking pictures and videos earlier but this is the first video of part of the tree coming down. Watch the branches fly when it lands...

TIMBER! ...and down it goes! It took a few tries to pull it down but we finally got it done! If you listen at the end of this video, you can here my brother-in-law, Payden say "Now we can go outside!" I think he was a little excited to go out and start stacking wood... one project down and a bunch more to go!! I just hope we can get some of them done before all our summer activities start happening. We've got a bunch planned.

Okay, so that's all you get right now cause my computer keeps giving me grief whenever I try to add more pics or videos.

Happy St. Patty's!!

2011-03-18T15:57:00.001-07:00

Here's dinner! If you're wondering what it is, it's green beans, green mashed potatoes, green pasta roni and green milk. It doesn't look all that great but it sure was tasty!

Wii

2011-01-18T16:12:00.000-08:00

This is going to be a very short post. Why? ...because I'm doing it from my wii and it takes a while to point and click at each letter. The holidays were awesome! Our 5th wedding anniversary was last weekend and it was awesome, too. More to come on our weekend away from home soon. Seems like after the holidays we don't see hardly any family. Well, we miss and love you all!!

Tis the Season

2010-12-08T15:15:00.000-08:00

Tis the season for (in no particular order)....

family
friends
parties
shopping
crowds
dipping chocolates
eating entirely too much
colds (sniff!)
hot chocolate
stress (too much to do!)
Santa Claus
new PJs
snuggling
snow - yay! (mixed with rain - yuck!)
warm fuzzy feelings
serving
Christ
Christmas caroling
presents
not having any money

Lately things are just busy. Nick has been asking me when I'm going to update our blog and I'm finally getting around to make a quick entry. As always, life is grand and we are happy. Happy Holidays to everyone!

2010-11-01T15:51:00.000-07:00

Happy Halloween! (a bit late) We had a fun weekend. Nick actually went hunting on Saturday and I decided to stay home and do some much needed cleaning. I did a heck of a good job, too! We got a bunch of trick-or-treaters. Nothing like what we used to get at our old apartment. I think the most we ever got there was maybe 7 or 8. On Saturday I was starting to lose count so I started a tally and we got about 40 that night and then another 30 or so on Sunday. Good thing I bought enough candy. Of course we still have some left, though. Just what I need... Last Wednesday was the only night we had to carve our pumpkins with Nick being in school and having a ward calling in the Scouts. We looked online for some patterns and decided to do King Leonidas and an immortal warrior from the movie 300. Nick did King Leonidas and I did the warrior. I think they turned out pretty darn good. Here's a few more things we've been up to...
We went to Yellowstone with Nick's family over conference weekend. It was a lot of fun driving around seeing everything. We didn't see a whole lot of animals but we did catch a few elk and buffalo with our cameras.

We stopped to picnic on Sunday and fed some camp robber birds. It was pretty funny when they came to get the food off our heads. Saphronia's face is classic! I can't believe it's already November. This year has really flown by. Thanksgiving and Christmas will be here before I know it. Crazy! I'm excited for the holidays, though. Busy, busy but fun, fun, FUN!

My brother... a Hero

2010-09-21T17:00:00.000-07:00

"This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave." - Elmer Davis

My brother, Jason is one of those brave ones. I got to go to the airport yesterday to see him off before he left for Mississippi. He'll be at Camp Shelby for about a month and then ship out to Iraq for about a year.

He's my baby brother and at 19 years old I can't help but still think of thim as just a kid. I'm still proud of him, though. He's grown up a lot and he's doing a good thing. I love you Jason! Good luck!!

Summer Fun

2010-07-31T12:23:00.001-07:00

Okay, so y'all better appreciate this post cause it took me forever to upload all these pictures...

This has been our summer so far...

Nick and I went up to Green Canyon Hot Springs to see some neices and nephews on the Fullmer side of the family at swimming lessons. They've been going every summer for quite some time. All of Nick's siblings and cousins went and now it's the next generations turn. It was fun to watch all the kids during there lessons. I think half of them are better swimmers than me.Here's the group that made it this year.

We had some life-long friends come and visit for a weekend and we got to spend a little bit of time with them while they we're here. We went to a family reunion on Saturday morning and then to a barbeque at my sister's mother-in-law's place.

Here's Nick playing with our nephew at the family reunion. I love the look on his cute little face.

and my dad holding Tucker, one of my friend Sarah's...

triplets! Here they all are getting as sticky as they can with watermelon. They just couldn't get enough.I'm holding Sean, Sarah has Tucker and Teresa has Audrey.

The next weekend was pretty busy. In both Nick and my family we have birthdays on June 30, July 2, 3(mine!), 4, 5, 6, 8, & 12 plus there's always at least 1 or 2 family reunions PLUS, 4th of July happenings. You can imagine how hectic it gan get. This year we went up to Driggs on Friday the 2nd and enjoyed a barbeque to celebrate Grandma Hansen's birthday and then on Saturday we got up at the bcod to make it to the balloon races. This year some of my family even came to see them. It was a lot of fun to have them there with us.My sister's cute little family.

You ever seen a beaver in the sky before?

Our neices, Violet and Paige

It's gonna squish me!

Jack-o-lantern and green cat thing. Strange if you ask me.

After the balloon races we went back to Nick's parents house and I made this...

It was the first one I had ever made and it was so easy and fun. I've made a few more since then and I love to wear them.

Moving on... We went to the Goodwin (my mom's side) family reunion for lunch and from there we just hung out at my parents until a barbeque that evening at my aunt's house. We used to have a breakfast every year at my grandparents house but now that they are both gone, it didn't happen. My aunt was feeling bad so she decided to have the barbeque and we've decided that we're going to try and just have a family reunion around the 4th each year. I'm glad we can still keep some sort of tradition going. Breakfast at grandma's was always one of my favorite things about summer.

Sunday, the 4th, is always a special day in my family. It's my mom's birthday! We've always said that she's just so awesome that the whole country celebrates. We had another barbeque at my house this time. Everyone was there including my mom's twin and her daughter. Talk about a full house! I loved it though. It makes my house feel more like a home.

My wonderful mother and her twin sister, Sandy.

Here's all the grandkids in my back yard. We tried to get a cute picture of all of them together and this is best one that turned out. I love that half of them have oreos all over there mouths. Aren't they cute?

The next weekend we went on a white water rafting trip with some friends up to the Hoback in Wyoming. We did it last year and it was such a blast that when they invited us again this year we just couldn't say no.
We're headed down the river.

Getting ready for some (little) rapids.

We stopped and Nick did some cliff jumping. I was to afraid of floating away so I made myself comfortable in the raft and watched.

The next day we drove up to this water fall just below Granite Hot Springs. I guess they shot part of a movie at this waterfall. Have you ever seen "A River Runs Through It"? (I think that's what it's called) I haven't.

We crossed the river just below the falls so we could get to...

this! Just a small spot where some hot springs came out.

The following weekend we had our annual Fullmer campout. This year we were missing 2 of Nick's brother's families so this is the group that got to be there this year.

Here we are jusr before out big hike up to...

the wind caves! Can you believe we took eleven kids up there?

Of course we had to stop at Paul Bunyan's bread. If you ask me, that's a big loaf of bread. You can see me headed somewhere else. I'm on my way to get to...

the other side of the creek. Here you can see that Nick decided to join me.

and here's another water fall we stopped at...

and another one...

and we made it to the top! We had to cross here and side wall along the edge of the creek on the other side in order to get in the caves. They were really neat. That's definetally a hike I would like to take again someday.

Last weekend Nick went out of town to help his dad with some work so I made myself busy and did this...

all by myself! I was pretty happy with the results. It didn't take me as long as I expected but it was still a lot of hard work. I got to go play that night at my brother's house...

The water was cold!! So I went a hopped in the hot tub and met Karli there...

isn't she just so cute!

The more time I spend with my neices and nephews, the more it makes me want kids. I guess I just need to be patient. I'll have my own someday.

Well that's our summer so far. We still have lots more left and more fun to be had.

Home Sweet Home!

2010-05-04T18:58:00.000-07:00

Well, here it is! Everyone has been asking for pictures and I'm finally getting around to posting a few. This is our new home! Nick and I were able to meet our goal and close on the 15th (yay!) and after a couple days of cleaning we moved in that weekend. We're still unpacking of course but hopefully it won't be too long til we have everything put together the way we want it. Here's a little tour...

Welcome to our home! It has 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms (one full, one 3/4 and one 1/2), a living room, family room, laundry room and a two car garage. So, you might be thinking... "That's a big house for just 2 people!" Nick and I thought that at first, too but we actually filled the house with all of our stuff. It's crazy to think it used to all be crammed into our 2 bedroom apartment. I'm sure once we finish putting things away it won't seem as full.

Here's our living room, that leads to the dining room...

and then the kitchen (so much better than the tiny one in the apartment!)

and our table looks so little in the dining area. It leads to the back deck...

We're going to be spending a lot of time outside grilling this summer. I'm sure we'll enjoy this deck a lot.

Here's the master bathroom off of our bedroom. Kinda weird that it's a half bath but it's still nice to have there.

and here's the full bath. It was a lot of fun to pick out new decorations but thing sure do add up fast when you're buying things for a new home.

Well, that's all the pics for now. The other rooms haven't been put together yet so I'll have to save them for another day... We love it here so far! The neighborhood is great and everyone is so nice. I know we're really going to enjoy it here.

Oh, yeah...

2010-04-08T17:05:00.000-07:00

By the way, I forgot to mention some wonderful news! Nick and I got an accepted offer on a house. Yay! Right now we're just waiting for the appraisal and inspection to be done so we can close. Our goal is to close by the 15th so we don't have to PAY taxes and then refile for the tax credit. What a pain! Oh, well. We'll see how things go. I'm super excited to have things all done and moved in. It will be really nice for Nick and I to have our own home. Wish us luck!

Family Photos

2010-04-08T16:45:00.001-07:00

We had family pictures taken last December and I'm finally getting around to posting some of them. These are some of my favorites...

I've got some good looking men in my family, don't ya think?

And here's the rest of them. One big happy family!

Happy Valentine's Day

2010-02-13T09:52:00.000-08:00

To celebrate Valentine's day I decided to make a list of some reasons why I love Nick...

1. He is kind. I don't know if I could ever meet someone who he couldn't get along with.

2. He is awesome with children. Our nieces and nephews just love him to death! (I just know he's going to be a great dad someday!)

3. He puts up with me. He understands that women can be emotional sometimes (generally about once a month for me). He feels horrible when he fails to cheer me up on those moody days, too.

4. He thinks I'm smart. (Silly, huh?) So in turn, he makes me feel smart, too.

5. He is smart. He just gets things... things that a lot of people wouldn't get. He understands why a lot of things are the way they are.

6. He holds and honors the Priesthood.

7. He loves me even with all my flaws.

8. He encourages me to be a better person and helps me to be a better person.

9. He spoils me... not just with things that I want but with his time and the way he treats me.

10. Cause he's just so darn good looking! ;)

Busy busy busy...

2010-01-16T12:50:00.000-08:00

That's just life. Especially around the holidays. Nick and I are finally getting back into the swing of things after a wonderful Christmas and awesome trip to Florida with my family. Here are some pics just to show how much fun we've been having...

Here we are at the "Honey, I shrunk the kids" playground.

Us on our good friend Antie

Hangin out with my brother and his cute little family.

Chillin with Lightning McQueen and Mater

Me, Tigger, Eeyore, my sister and nephews

Enjoying Hollywood Studios

and Animal Kingdom

I even tried out for the American Idol Experience!

Don't we look good!

All in all we had a great time! Hangin out with family is my favorite thing to do cause they're just so awesome!

Nick and I also celebrated our 4th anniversary on the 14th. We went and saw Sherlock Holmes in the theater, ate at Chile's (thanks for the gift card Vanae!) and played our new Wii game. I'm so happy to be married to this wonderful guy and I can't wait to spend the rest of eternity with him. He is my forever!

Good News

2009-11-13T18:13:00.000-08:00

It's been a few weeks but guess what... Nick got his elk! Yay!!! I would post some pics but for some reason my computer won't recognize my SD card. Oh well! I don't really think many people would like them anyway. I didn't get any before Nick's dad started gutting the elk. Kinda greusome. So yeah, I decided to go hunting with Nick for once this year and it just turned out that he got his elk that day. It was my first time being on a hunt where someone got something. I didn't know how it would be to be around an animal that someone had just shot but it wasn't that bad. In fact, I was just thrilled at the fact that we would be able to fill our freezer and I could see a little more of my husband this fall. It's been really busy the last few weeks. I keep thinking that we should have some time to relax but then I think about everywhere I have to go and everything I have to do. I finally have a good night off tonight but Nick is on a camp out with the scouts. I hope he doesn't freeze too bad. Yikes! It's cold outside!
On another note, I have great news! My parents decided that it was time for me to get their piano so on Wednesday Nick and I went to pick it up and it's home now. I was never a pro at playing but I wasn't too bad. Now I'm really out of practice and I feel like I have to start all over again. I also think that having the piano will help me sing more. I don't do that as much as I used to either and it makes me sad :( I'm super excited to have it though. I know that I will benefit from it a lot if I just take the time to play whenever I can.
Well, just thought I'd pop in and give a quick update. Happy holidays to everyone!!

Weekend of fun!

2009-10-20T18:51:00.001-07:00

I have to admit that it can get pretty lonely and boring being a hunter's widow. In fact, Nick is out hunting right now. Oh, well! At least it gives me time to post new entries. If Nick were home all the time, you'd never get to hear from me. I got to have Nick home this last weekend and I was so sick of being in the apartment so I treated Nick and I to a fun weekend away from home. I was originally going to surprise him with a trip to Alaska but the flights were full so I took the second best place in the world (where I've always wanted to go) and we went to England instead!!!

Okay, so maybe we didn't actually go to the England across the ocean but we stayed at the Destinations Inn in Idaho Falls in their England suite. It was a lot of fun. Here are some pictures of our way cool room..

When you walk into the room there's a drawbridge that we had to walk up to get to the rest of the room.

We had sparkling apple cider waiting for us. Yummy!

This was the coolest part of the whole room. First you see a regular bookshelf...

...then it opens to a secret passageway...

...which leads to the bathroom! So cool!

We drove to look at the temple across from the river. This is close to the spot where Nick proposed to me.

The next day we were going to go to the Tautphas Park Zoo, but they were closed. What in the world?!? We noticed this huge pumpkin patch on the same road, though so we decided to stop. It was so awesome! I've never been to a pumpkin patch before. We found some really good pumpkins to carve and don't worry, we'll be sure to take some pictures once they're done.

Pumpkins, pumpkins, pumpkins, and more pumpkins!! They probably had about 10 acres of just pumpkins!

We stopped in Blackfoot on our way home and went out to dinner with my mom and dad. We went to a Mexican restaurant called El Mirador. Yum! I would definitely recommend it. Make sure whatever your order is "al a creme".
We both had a very enjoyable time. Who knew a trip to England could be so fun?

The weekend wasn't over yet, though. Nick had church meetings all day on Sunday so I spent my time finishing up some projects that I started at Enrichment last week.

This is my countdown calendar for Christmas. It's on the back of a cookie sheet with cute magnets for each day.

See? Underneath the magnets are fun things to do for the day. Too bad I got a non-stick cookie sheet, though. My days are already falling off. I'll have to see if I can find some better glue to fix it.

And this is my nativity. Isn't it cute? I think so.

Doing these projects makes me wish it was Christmas already and it's not even Halloween yet. I guess that's probably a good thing, though because I'm nowhere near being ready for Christmas. There's so much to do! I look forward to all of it though!

Halloween Party

2009-10-20T16:47:00.000-07:00

We had our annual Halloween party a little early this year. It was a lot of fun. We all brought a scary dish for dinner and roasted hot dogs, bobbed for apples, ate donuts on a string, decorated cupcakes, and just enjoyed ourselves.

I couldn't convince Nick to dress up but I went as a butterfly. What do you think of my makeup job?

Farewell Summer

2009-10-01T18:22:00.000-07:00

I know summer has been over for a while but I wanted to post some more pictures of our fantastic summer to give it a proper farewell and get me ready to welcome in the upcoming holidays.

For the 4th of July Nick and I went to Driggs to spend time with his family. He's been wanting to take me to the hot air balloon festival ever since we got married and we finally made it this year. We got up extra early and drove to the fairgrounds to watch everyone fill up their balloons and get them ready for launch. It was really impressive to see the whole process.

Nick got this picture on his cell phone and it was one of my favorites.

It was really cool to watch the balloons float right over us.

I really enjoyed the balloons and would highly recommend it to anyone.

We went fishing at Chesterfield Reservoir and had no luck, so we drove over to Toponce Creek and Nick tried his luck there while I took some pictures of nature.

For Nick's birthday in August he chose to go up to Pack Saddle Lake. We borrowed my Dad's 4 wheeler and Nick's family joined us. We rode the 4 wheelers down in and roasted hot dogs on the fire. We enjoyed fishing and then a little bit of swimming. Not too much swimming though. The water was freeeezing!!! and I'm not talking about "cold at first, but you get used to it". I mean it was like "go in for 30 seconds and come out numb." Ouch! We had fun anyway. We made good use of the fire warming up after the swim.

Look at all the little fishy's!

Cousin Billy and daughter Larissa (she out-fished everyone) , and Nick's Dad

We went 4 wheeling up Blackrock canyon while we were still borrowing my Dad's 4 wheeler and I'm not sure I've never seen so many wildflowers in my life. It was so pretty!

What a stud!

Have you ever seen a mountain goat in Swan Valley? Me neither. In fact Neither Nick or I had ever seen a mountain goat in the wild at all until we saw this big guy on our way to Driggs a few weeks ago. It was pretty cool to stop and watch him for a little while. He didn't even seem to care that we were there.

This is my new toy. Isn't it pretty?? This is my first gun. Nick was pretty excited when I decided to finally get one. I decided to go with a shotgun because I like to skeet shoot and I'd kind of like to go bird hunting someday. I've actually had it for about a month but last weekend was the first time I took it out and shot it. So far I like it and I'm sure I'll like it even more once I get more used to it.

Well, that pretty much concludes our summer. Although we had a ton of fun it's kind of nice for it to come to an end so we can have some relax time before all the frantic (but very enjoyable) holidays start. Happy fall to everyone!!

Our Story...

2009-09-28T17:31:00.000-07:00

Halloween is always an exciting time of year for me. Not only do you get to dress up, eat candy and have lots of fun with parties and stuff, it's also the time of year that Nick and I met. Most people know that we met at a Halloween party so we always like to do our own little "anniversary" celebration. Here's our story...
Although we met in October, our story begins in the middle of August. My family was getting together one Thursday evening to celebrate a special event; I had received my mission call and it was time for me to open it. I was so excited when I opened it up to see that I was going to be serving in Manchester, England. Wow! I was set to leave on December 7 and I couldn't wait. For the next couple of months I prepared as anyone would to go on a mission. I had no idea what was in store, though. I spent a lot of time with friends from the Institute and was invited by one of them to go to a Halloween party that his friend was having in Arimo (a little podunk town south of Pocatello), of all places. It was on October 22 (I still have the invitation). I dressed as my wardrobe layering pants, shorts and a bunch of colorful shirts. I looked quite interesting. At the party we played a lot of games, one of which was a scavenger hunt which I soon gave up on because I was having no luck. I went to sit in the kitchen and found a really cute guy in there with his friend. We struck up a conversation and talked about his and his friend's missions for a little while (I "accidentally" forgot to tell him that I had a mission call). Everyone came in after a while and we started another game. It's kind of hard to explain but he ended up "killing" everyone sitting in between us so he could sit by me. Isn't it sweet! I, of course, didn't know that at the time. At the end of the evening we exchanged phone numbers. The next week I called him and invited him to go to the Institute Halloween dance with me and some friends. We went as Napoleon Dynamite and Deb. It was awesome! He wore a suit and everything. I wish I had a picture because if you knew Nick, you would never believe it. Well, we started seeing each other more often and after a couple of weeks I finally told him about my mission call to England. I was afraid it would scare him off and I didn't want that to happen because I was starting to really like him. I was surprised to learn that he already knew and he still wanted to keep seeing me. Over the next couple of weeks things started getting more serious.I met his family and 2 days later on November 22 he proposed across the river from the Idaho Falls Temple. It was very sweet. I had been praying about it before hand and I felt that getting married was the right thing to do so I gave up the mission. I had a different mission in mind. We were married on January 14, 2006 in the Idaho Falls Temple. It was beautiful and I'll never forget that day in my life. It was definitely the best so far. I'm so glad to have Nick as a husband. He treats me with the best respect and love I could ever ask for. I love him more that anything!

Some Engagement Pictures...

Our Wedding Day

My masterpeice...

2009-09-05T19:38:00.000-07:00

So, I've been planning on on painting the front of our camper since last summer and today I finally decided to get to it since I had nothing better to do while Nick was gone. I had no idea how it would turn out because I've never done anything like this before in my life. I was pleasantly surprised though at how well I did and it didn't take as long as I thought it would either; only a couple of hours. I should have taken some before pictures but, oh well, I think it turned out pretty great. I even had some random guy drive by as I was finishing and tell me that it was "really pretty." Now I think I'll try to tackle some more fun painting projects in the future and I won't have to be so scared to do it... I just didn't know I had it in me!!

Me time

2009-09-04T19:09:00.000-07:00

It is officially hunting season and I am a hunter's widow. Nick left earlier today to go archery hunting for elk and he'll be gone all weekend. I had been thinking about all of these things that I could do while he was gone... watch chick flicks, go shopping, paint my nails, take a nap, etc. (all that fun stuff that men don't like to do for some reason. Hmmm... maybe it's the same reason that I'm not that into hunting.) Well, thus far, I haven't done any of those things and I don't really feel like them right now so here I sit...

99 Things...

2009-08-25T18:41:00.000-07:00

This is kind of fun. Just copy and paste the list and make all of the things you've done BOLD. Compared to some things on here I feel a little boring, but compared to others maybe I'm not so boring.

1. Started your own blog
2. Slept under the stars
3. Played in a band
4. Visited Hawaii
5. Watched a meteor shower
6. Given more than you can afford to charity
7. Been to Disneyland
8. Climbed a mountain
9. Held a praying mantis
10. Sang a solo
11. Bungee jumped
12. Visited Paris
13. Watched a lightning storm at sea
14. Taught yourself an art from scratch
15. Adopted a child
16. Had food poisoning
17. Walked to the top of the Statue of Liberty
18. Grown your own vegetables
19. Seen the Mona Lisa in France
20. Slept on an overnight train
21. Had a pillow fight
22. Hitch hiked
23. Taken a sick day when you’re not ill
24. Built a snow fort
25. Held a lamb
26. Gone skinny dipping
27. Run a Marathon
28. Ridden in a gondola in Venice
29. Seen a total eclipse
30. Watched a sunrise or sunset
31. Hit a home run
32. Been on a cruise
33. Seen Niagara Falls in person
34. Visited the birthplace of your ancestors
35. Seen an Amish community
36. Taught yourself a new language (sort of)
37. Had enough money to be truly satisfied
38. Seen the Leaning Tower of Pisa in person
39. Gone rock climbing
40. Seen Michelangelo’s David
41. Sung karaoke
42. Seen Old Faithful geyser erupt
43. Bought a stranger a meal at a restaurant
44. Visited Africa
45. Walked on a beach by moonlight
46. Been transported in an ambulance
47. Had your portrait painted
48. Gone deep sea fishing
49. Seen the Sistine Chapel in person
50. Been to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris
51. Gone scuba diving or snorkeling
52. Kissed in the rain
53. Played in the mud
54. Gone to a drive-in theater
55. Been in a movie
56. Visited the Great Wall of China
57. Started a business
58. Taken a martial arts class
59. Visited Russia
60. Served at a soup kitchen
61. Sold Girl Scout Cookies
62. Gone whale watching
63. Got flowers for no reason
64. Donated blood, platelets or plasma
65. Gone sky diving
66. Visited a Nazi Concentration Camp
67. Bounced a check
68. Flown in a helicopter
69. Saved a favorite childhood toy
70. Visited the Lincoln Memorial
71. Eaten Caviar
72. Pieced a quilt
73. Stood in Times Square
74. Toured the Everglades
75. Been fired from a job
76. Seen the Changing of the Guards in London
77. Broken a bone
78. Been a passenger on a motorcycle
79. Seen the Grand Canyon in person
80. Have been published
81. Visited the Redwoods
82. Bought a brand new car
83. Walked in Jerusalem
84. Had your picture in the newspaper
85. Kissed a stranger at midnight on New Year’s Eve
86. Visited the White House
87. Killed and prepared an animal for eating
88. Had chickenpox
89. Saved someone’s life
90. Sat on a jury
91. Met someone famous
92. Joined a book club
93. Got a tattoo
94. Had a baby
95. Seen the Alamo in person
96. Swam in the Great Salt Lake
97. Been involved in a law suit
98. Owned a cell phone
99. Been stung by a bee

Our Summer

2009-08-09T17:57:00.000-07:00

This is our yurt. Yup, that's what it's called. We had an early Turner family vacation this year and went to Dawnata Hot Springs for a weekend. The slides were the funnest and you definetally got a work out from repeatedly running up the stairs to go down again. It was worth it, though.

We went white water rafting with some friends down the Hoback up by Aspen, Wyoming. It was my first time and I would definetally recommend it for a fun weekend getaway.

We got to go to St. George to see a best friend get married and took some lovely pictures of our own.I love these kind of pictures because it makes me excited to have children of our own. Nick will be such a great Daddy!

We had a blast playing in the creek at the Fullmer family campout.

We went to the "This Is The Place Monument" in Salt Lake City and had fun taking pictures at the little village they had set up for the kids.

...and summer isn't even over yet!!

I am such a slacker!!

2009-06-23T18:57:00.000-07:00

Well, yes and no. I'm a slacker when it come to blogging. Nick and I don't have the internet right now so the only time I have to check things out is when I go to the library which is only about once a month and then I just use up all of my alotted time reading everyone else's blog.

I just wanted to let everyone know that we're still alive and well. We've got a busy summer planned out and I excited for some of the fun things we'll be doing.

We're going to have fun going camping, fishing, white water rafting, hiking, and celebrating both out birthdays in the next couple months. I think every weekend is pretty much full. It will be a lot of fun but when it's all said and done it will be nice to just be able to relax.

Oh, yeah! Guess what I did today?? I performed a song at work today. Farm Bureau is one of the area's biggest supporters for "Relay For Life", a program designed to raise money to find the cure for cancer. Anyway, to raise money at work, we sold tickets to a talent show that we called "Farm Bureau's Got Talent". I sang Whitney Houston's "Greatest Love of All" and guess what else?? I won!! It was pretty exciting since I don't really win anything very often.

Hmmm... what else has been going on? I planted flowers in front of our apartment. Daisies!! I figured it would be a good choice because of all the sunshine and wamth we would be getting this summer. To bad about all the rain. I think most of the flowers have either drowned or gotten moldy... Rain, rain, and more rain!! Holy cow! When will it ever stop? I feel like it's been raining for the past month straight. The past couple days have actually been warm but it looks like the forecast says more rain for the next few days. Blah! I'm just hoping for better weather for the rest of the summer.

I hope everyone else's summer is going awesome! We love you all!

Happy Halloween!!

2008-10-29T16:25:00.000-07:00

Okay, so I guess it's not technically Halloween yet, but I'm sure I won't be taking time to write on Halloween. Nick and I carved our pumpkins on Monday. Can you guess who carved this one?

If you guessed Nick, you're right. I looked for some patterns online and found this one and Nick just had to do it. Mine is a bit more simple...

We had fun. While we were carving we watched the movie "So I Married an Axe Murderer." I had never seen it before. Very interesting movie... it had some pretty funny parts, though.

Last night we had a family Halloween Party at my parents and had a lot of fun. We ate Monster Brains and Potato Ghosts, spit pumpkin seeds, bobbed for apples and ate doughnuts on a string. It was pretty funny watching everyone eat there doughnuts. I would have to say that Paige and Violet were the funniest, though. It took them a while to finish there's without using there hands but they were bound and determined that they were going to. Everybody cheered and clapped after they finally finished. You could tell they had a lot of fun. Mom got some pictures so I hope to get some from her. Fun times!!

We hope everyone has a fun and safe Halloween!! So long for now!

Rambling on...

2008-09-30T15:55:00.000-07:00

All right, I decided that I had some time to add a little to out blog, but I warn you it might get pretty random. (kinda like this picture is)

This last month seemed like it would never end, but now that its over I can't tell you where the time all went. Hunting season does that to me, though. Nick went every weekend and then some trying to get an elk with his bow, but the weather just didn't want to cooperate. Too hot for the elk to want to come out and play. Darn it! But I do have my husband back now (Yay!) I can't even begin to describe how much I missed him, even when I went to Driggs with him. I really start to miss those nights when we're home together even when we just sit at home and don't do much. I guess we'll have to see what we can do during rifle season. I'm going to get an elk tag, too. Hopefully we'll be luckier than the last couple of years. I have yet to go on a successful hunt (successful meaning that someone actually shoots an animal and we bring it home). Our freezer is getting pretty low on meat and I'm thinking it might be nice to have some during the next year.
Guess what! For those of you who didn't know, I participated in "The Biggest Loser" at work this last summer and my team won! Yay! I don't remember the exact numbers but all together my team lost a total of 115 pounds. 21 of which were mine and I don't plan on going to look for them. In fact since then, I've lost about 5 more. It's pretty exciting to know that I can do something like this. It makes me feel really good about myself, especially when people notice. I still want to lose about 15 more so I've got to keep it up. A lot of people have asked me how I did it and to be honest it really wasn't that hard. I just made a few small changes. Now days I walk on all of my breaks at work (it's easy to do 1/2 mile in 15 minutes). I make sure I have breakfast so my metabolism can kick in for the day. I rarely eat anything when I'm not hungry and when I do eat, I don't stuff myself as full as I can get, I eat till I'm not hungry anymore. When I snack, I take a serving size instead of eating out of the bag or box so I know how much I'm eating. At first when I started doing this it was kind of a pain because I started to get hungry a lot more often, but because I was giving my body what it needed when it needed it, my stomach shrunk and my metabolism started to work when it was supposed to. I didn't even have to give up the foods I love to eat. That's one reason why I didn't want to try out any diets out there. I knew that even if I stuck with it thru the biggest loser, once it was over I'd start eating what I wanted again and ruin all my hard work. To me losing weight isn't about dieting. It's about changing your lifestyle in a way. Now that I've lost some it's so much easier for me to be more active. In fact, Nick and I went camping in August for his birthday and decided to go on little hike that ended up taking us up a mountain and lasting half the day, but I was so surprised to notice that I wasn't panting the whole way up and having to stop every ten steps. It was great!
Well, I think I've rambled on enough for now. I'll be lucky to have dinner ready by the time Nick gets home. Oh, well! He'll still love me!!

In the beginning...

2008-05-19T19:07:00.000-07:00

We are now officially bloggers like all the rest of you hooligans! (we hope your happy now)